Postcolonial Justice

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Postcolonial Justice addresses a major issue in current postcolonial theory and beyond, namely, the question of how to reconcile an ethics grounded in the reciprocal acknowledgment of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice. The concept of postcolonial justice shared by the essays in this volume carries an unwavering commitment to difference within and beyond Europe, while equally rejecting radical cultural essentialisms, which refuse to engage in “utopian ideals” of convivial exchange across a plurality of subject positions. Such utopian ideals can no longer claim universal validity, as in the tradition of the European enlightenment; instead they are bound to local frames of speaking from which they project world.

Biografische Angaben

Anke Bartels is senior lecturer in English at the University of Potsdam;
Lars Eckstein is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures outside of GB and the US at the University of Potsdam;
Nicole Waller is Professor of American Studies at the University of Potsdam;
Dirk Wiemann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Potsdam.

Rezensionszitat

"As a whole, this volume, which broaches the topic of postcolonial justice from a wide variety of angles, constitutes a valuable contribution to scholarship, although further steps will obviously need to be taken, on a global scale, to counter the countless injustices caused by colonialism, past or present."
- Marie Herbillon,
Université de Liège,
Recherche littéraire, literary research 34, Summer 2018, p. 153-158.

Justice within and without the Law
‘It’s All about the Children’: Child Asylum Seekers and the Politics of Innocence in Australia – Carly McLaughlin
Aspirin or Amplifier? Reconciliation, Justice, and the Performance of National Identity in Canada –Hanna Teichler
‘So It Happens that We are Relegated to the Condition of the Aborigines of the American Continent’: Disavowing and Reclaiming Sovereignty in Liliuokalani’s
Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen and the Congressional
Morgan Report – Jens Temmen